Christian Pravda
Appearance
Medal record | ||
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Men's Alpine skiing | ||
Olympic Games | ||
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1952 Oslo | Giant Slalom |
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1952 Oslo | Downhill |
World Championships | ||
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1954 Åre | Downhill |
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1954 Åre | Combined |
Christian Pravda (March 8, 1927 – November 11, 1994) was an alpine ski racer.
He was born in Kufstein, Austria.
At age 20, he participated in the 1948 Winter Olympics in the slalom, but was disqualified.
At the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway, Pravda won two medals: silver in giant slalom and a bronze medal in the downhill.
Pravda won the prestigious Hahnenkamm downhill twice, in 1951 and 1954. He also won the Wengen downhill in 1954, the first of only ten racers to win both of these classic downhills in the same year.
External links
- Database Olympics.com - Christian Pravda - profile
Categories:
- 1927 births
- 1994 deaths
- Austrian alpine skiers
- Olympic alpine skiers of Austria
- Alpine skiers at the 1948 Winter Olympics
- Alpine skiers at the 1952 Winter Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Austria
- Olympic bronze medalists for Austria
- People from Kufstein
- Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
- Medalists at the 1952 Winter Olympics
- Austrian Winter Olympic medalist stubs
- Austrian alpine skiing biography stubs
- Male alpine skiers